Lessons From Strata Tuesday

On Monday, I made my way to San Jose for Strata-Hadoop World. I’ve been to all six Stratas in Silicon Valley, the first four in Santa Clara. The hardcore sessions/keynotes are Wednesday-Thursday, but over the years I’ve generally preferred the Tuesday tutorials, which are less crowded as well as better learning vehicles. Last year’s all-day presentations on academic machine learning left my head spinning; several years ago it was eight hours of Spark that made me a big data computation proselyte.This year I decided to do an all-day, hands-on sesssion tutorial Tuesday, the choices a tough call between PyData and R. In the end I chose PyData at Strata since I’m somewhat more more advanced in R and wished to be exposed to the Bokeh inteactive visualization platform.Most data scientists…